Last night everyone in the kingdom was asked to light a candle in celebration of the Kings birthday. Almost everyone in our soi joined in and the excitement among the kids as the time got closer was great to see. Many houses had flags, coloured lights and decorations up At the auspicious minute we all lit our candles and people turned up the volume on their car radios etc and everyone sang the San sirn phra baramii.The kids faces lit up by their candles was a joy to see The soi was full of yellow candles placed on the gates of the houses and in the trees Two old people in wheel chairs and obviously not long for this earth had been wheeled out for the occasion one of them in tears during the singing. It was a great few minutes.
Let no one doubt the depth of the love that the common people in the population have for this man.
Sandy
Thanks, Sandy. If you don't mind, I would like to add some excerpts from the King's speech, from The Nation:
HM the King spoke of balance in the art of government during his landmark birthday speech on Thursday.
[Commenting on the Kwai Noy dam construction project] . . . Some people raised concerns that the dam might cause earthquakes. I then told them we needed to study the land. Our planet is not sturdy, because it has cracks everywhere, cracks in the soil, in the rocks, even in politics. I too am afraid that the dam might exacerbate the existing cracks and lead to an earthquake that will trouble all of us. But I think the worst trouble is the crack within each and every one of us. A crack can happen even in one man alone. A cracked bone can be mended with epoxy glue, but cracks among people are problematic. We have to find a way to mend them.
The entire front row of seats is occupied by leading figures. They too have many cracks. Though they sit close together, they are not united. I should have mentioned this towards the end, to urge mending and unity. But I have just started, so don't assume the ending. In fact I could stop now, because I have said a lot, [but ]I have more to say.
. . . I had the opportunity to discuss other projects without having to make many trips. By extending the heart, development can be carried out everywhere. A moment ago the prime minister mentioned things yet to be done. He also talked about press questions on ideological threats in Thailand. These questions were asked more than 20 years ago, and many interviews were given. I remember well because I was interviewed in my office, where there was a large map on the wall. I showed the places I had visited. The question was then posed whether I was fighting terrorism. I replied: "What terrorism?" Terrorist activities were everywhere, including towns. I travelled in order to inspect the country: I am not fighting terrorism. To quote the prime minister, I aim to fight poverty and solve the people's grievances. If we can eradicate poverty, then terrorism will dissipate.
In fighting poverty, it is necessary to develop professional skills and livelihoods. This is not about the planting of crops alone: it is about the overall improvement in livelihood and education. Without a good education, a man is not fit to work. Education should meet the standard at all levels. At a high level, we have scientists. Thais can never attain high-level education if they don't have sound education in kindergarten and primary schools. And people with weak basic education are prone to ignorance and do irresponsible things like make bombs. Assembling a bomb is not as difficult as was once thought. A recent bombing in the Middle East did not involve an atomic bomb as feared: fertiliser was used as the explosive. Thailand has had one brush with an attempt to use a fertiliser bomb.
. . . A fertiliser bomb was used to blow up a building in Baghdad, not a nuclear bomb. No higher education is needed to make a fertiliser bomb: it is not high technology. Thailand was lucky to uncover the bombing attempt. I could scarcely believe that the same fertiliser that is used in growing rice and vegetables can be an explosive, [until] when terrorism was prevalent in Buri Ram a soldier, now retired with the rank of colonel or lieutenant-colonel, showed me how a fertiliser bomb was made. He showed a videotape of a powerful explosion and proposed to use fertiliser bombs in lieu of sophisticated weapons. He was a soldier, not a scientist, but he could turn fertiliser into an explosive. As the military did not have a large stock of armaments, the soldiers on the battlefield had to make do with whatever was available to them in order to fight the enemy.
I am talking about the potential of an educated man with eccentric ideas. That soldier was a graduate of Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, which taught its graduates many things, though possibly not a course in bomb-making. Eccentric ideas, if developed at an early age, can lead to great achievements. Recently some students attended the Academic Olympics, not the racing, sporting event, and won gold medals, the first academic ones we have had. My sister HRH Princess Galayani Vadhana is keenly interested in education. Many students are not well educated because they lack good basic education. The foundations of higher education must be laid from kindergarten to primary and secondary school. Systematic thinking should be developed by encouraging curiosity.
I started my studies at an early age in Thailand. At three and four years of age I attended a kindergarten and entered primary school at five. Because I had to accompany His Majesty [King Rama VIII], I attended schools abroad after kindergarten to the completion of high school at 17. I studied the assigned curriculum which encouraged thinking. It is not so in Thailand, where, it is said, teachers force students to learn. Hence the government policy of new thinking, whereby the students are supposed to teach the teachers.
This is impossible. Children are new to the world. How can they teach the teachers? Some teachers do not know how to teach. Some ministers don't know either. Proper teaching can equip students to teach teachers, however: teachers must allow students to ask questions. The question "Ah! What is this?" is how a student teaches the teachers. Teachers are often angry and punish the students because they view the question as questioning their knowledge. Education reform means the encouragement of questioning. One should not misconstrue questioning as casting doubt on teachers, on directors-general, on permanent secretaries, on ministers - excuse me: I of course mean vice ministers - then on deputy ministers and on ministers. Children are entitled to ask questions, and they have the right to be listened to. They ask because they don't know and want to learn. Some have eccentric ideas, and they deserve to be listened to. I speak from my own childhood experience. My foreign teachers answered when I asked: "What is this?" I was encouraged to continue asking and to learn.
. . . I have been following government education policy since before the prime minister was born . . . He wants students to teach teachers to the extent that teachers will not have to do any teaching. This is not possible and will not lead to progress. There are still many good teachers who can guide students. Such a good teacher is the prime minister himself. I notice that although the prime minister aims to implement a system whereby students teach teachers, when he taught a class he refused to be questioned by the students, so his efforts were in vain. I am sorry to say I saw the prime minister resorting old-fashioned teaching. I know the prime minister does not like the old style. He likes modern things such as IT. Don't be disheartened. With the advent of IT, some people tried to praise me as an IT King. I was embarrassed that I didn't know what IT meant and ended up pretending to. I started using a computer. In the beginning I did not intend to use it for research. I think I am catching on o the use of foreign words, like the prime minister.
IT is certainly for research, but I used the computer for writing musical scores. And the machine I am using is already 16 years old . . . I am preparing myself for the latest computer model. I think I shall have to start studying how to use a modern computer. But my teachers are all retired. Thailand has no other teachers left to teach me but teacher Thaksin. The prime minister will have to come and do it. Then I may take to my lessons so easily as to have to keep asking questions until Prime Minister Thaksin realises that he is the teacher and obliged to listen to the student. This is the method acceptable in the modern world. The prime minister is obliged to be taught. Everyone has the right to teach Thaksin. And this is not about the "integrated approach". I still don't know what that term means.
When the prime minister went to a meeting on terrorism in Bali, a deputy prime minister came to brief me about CEO-style provincial governors. I lost track after he kept repeating the terms "integrated approach" and "CEO". I simply didn't know what he was talking about.
So I thought he was a teacher as well. After I questioned him, he said I was the "super-CEO" and asked me to teach the CEOs. I told him I didn't think I fitted the bill and would not presume to teach CEOs because they were all-powerful.
Not long afterwards, I met a CEO governor in Hua Hin. I was about to return to Bangkok to attend the Apec events. The CEO told me that it was impossible for my motorcade to travel through the floods. The water was too deep and would float my cars. It so happened that the CEO had just arrived in office two weeks previously. He had the power to give orders but the problem was he had to first know what would solve the flooding.
His subordinates also thought of themselves as CEOs. Chaos ensued as orders were given by everyone. The CEO was a quick learner, fortunately, ...
Last night everyone in the kingdom was asked to light a candle in celebration of the Kings birthday. Almost everyone in our soi joined in and the excitement among the kids as the time got closer was great to see. Many houses had flags, coloured lights and decorations up At the auspicious minute we all lit our candles and people turned up the volume on their car radios etc and everyone sang the San sirn phra baramii.The kids faces lit up by their candles was a joy to see The soi was full of yellow candles placed on the gates of the houses and in the trees Two old people in wheel chairs and obviously not long for this earth had been wheeled out for the occasion one of them in tears during the singing. It was a great few minutes.
Let no one doubt the depth of the love that the common people in the population have for this man.
Sandy
Thanks, Sandy. If you don't mind, I would like to add some excerpts from the King's speech, from The Nation:
HM the King spoke of balance in the art of government during his landmark birthday speech on Thursday.
[Commenting on the Kwai Noy dam construction project] . . . Some people raised concerns that the dam might cause earthquakes. I then told them we needed to study the land. Our planet is not sturdy, because it has cracks everywhere, cracks in the soil, in the rocks, even in politics. I too am afraid that the dam might exacerbate the existing cracks and lead to an earthquake that will trouble all of us. But I think the worst trouble is the crack within each and every one of us. A crack can happen even in one man alone. A cracked bone can be mended with epoxy glue, but cracks among people are problematic. We have to find a way to mend them.
The entire front row of seats is occupied by leading figures. They too have many cracks. Though they sit close together, they are not united. I should have mentioned this towards the end, to urge mending and unity. But I have just started, so don't assume the ending. In fact I could stop now, because I have said a lot, [but ]I have more to say.
. . . I had the opportunity to discuss other projects without having to make many trips. By extending the heart, development can be carried out everywhere. A moment ago the prime minister mentioned things yet to be done. He also talked about press questions on ideological threats in Thailand. These questions were asked more than 20 years ago, and many interviews were given. I remember well because I was interviewed in my office, where there was a large map on the wall. I showed the places I had visited. The question was then posed whether I was fighting terrorism. I replied: "What terrorism?" Terrorist activities were everywhere, including towns. I travelled in order to inspect the country: I am not fighting terrorism. To quote the prime minister, I aim to fight poverty and solve the people's grievances. If we can eradicate poverty, then terrorism will dissipate.
In fighting poverty, it is necessary to develop professional skills and livelihoods. This is not about the planting of crops alone: it is about the overall improvement in livelihood and education. Without a good education, a man is not fit to work. Education should meet the standard at all levels. At a high level, we have scientists. Thais can never attain high-level education if they don't have sound education in kindergarten and primary schools. And people with weak basic education are prone to ignorance and do irresponsible things like make bombs. Assembling a bomb is not as difficult as was once thought. A recent bombing in the Middle East did not involve an atomic bomb as feared: fertiliser was used as the explosive. Thailand has had one brush with an attempt to use a fertiliser bomb.
. . . A fertiliser bomb was used to blow up a building in Baghdad, not a nuclear bomb. No higher education is needed to make a fertiliser bomb: it is not high technology. Thailand was lucky to uncover the bombing attempt. I could scarcely believe that the same fertiliser that is used in growing rice and vegetables can be an explosive, [until] when terrorism was prevalent in Buri Ram a soldier, now retired with the rank of colonel or lieutenant-colonel, showed me how a fertiliser bomb was made. He showed a videotape of a powerful explosion and proposed to use fertiliser bombs in lieu of sophisticated weapons. He was a soldier, not a scientist, but he could turn fertiliser into an explosive. As the military did not have a large stock of armaments, the soldiers on the battlefield had to make do with whatever was available to them in order to fight the enemy.
I am talking about the potential of an educated man with eccentric ideas. That soldier was a graduate of Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, which taught its graduates many things, though possibly not a course in bomb-making. Eccentric ideas, if developed at an early age, can lead to great achievements. Recently some students attended the Academic Olympics, not the racing, sporting event, and won gold medals, the first academic ones we have had. My sister HRH Princess Galayani Vadhana is keenly interested in education. Many students are not well educated because they lack good basic education. The foundations of higher education must be laid from kindergarten to primary and secondary school. Systematic thinking should be developed by encouraging curiosity.
I started my studies at an early age in Thailand. At three and four years of age I attended a kindergarten and entered primary school at five. Because I had to accompany His Majesty [King Rama VIII], I attended schools abroad after kindergarten to the completion of high school at 17. I studied the assigned curriculum which encouraged thinking. It is not so in Thailand, where, it is said, teachers force students to learn. Hence the government policy of new thinking, whereby the students are supposed to teach the teachers.
This is impossible. Children are new to the world. How can they teach the teachers? Some teachers do not know how to teach. Some ministers don't know either. Proper teaching can equip students to teach teachers, however: teachers must allow students to ask questions. The question "Ah! What is this?" is how a student teaches the teachers. Teachers are often angry and punish the students because they view the question as questioning their knowledge. Education reform means the encouragement of questioning. One should not misconstrue questioning as casting doubt on teachers, on directors-general, on permanent secretaries, on ministers - excuse me: I of course mean vice ministers - then on deputy ministers and on ministers. Children are entitled to ask questions, and they have the right to be listened to. They ask because they don't know and want to learn. Some have eccentric ideas, and they deserve to be listened to. I speak from my own childhood experience. My foreign teachers answered when I asked: "What is this?" I was encouraged to continue asking and to learn.
. . . I have been following government education policy since before the prime minister was born . . . He wants students to teach teachers to the extent that teachers will not have to do any teaching. This is not possible and will not lead to progress. There are still many good teachers who can guide students. Such a good teacher is the prime minister himself. I notice that although the prime minister aims to implement a system whereby students teach teachers, when he taught a class he refused to be questioned by the students, so his efforts were in vain. I am sorry to say I saw the prime minister resorting old-fashioned teaching. I know the prime minister does not like the old style. He likes modern things such as IT. Don't be disheartened. With the advent of IT, some people tried to praise me as an IT King. I was embarrassed that I didn't know what IT meant and ended up pretending to. I started using a computer. In the beginning I did not intend to use it for research. I think I am catching on o the use of foreign words, like the prime minister.
IT is certainly for research, but I used the computer for writing musical scores. And the machine I am using is already 16 years old . . . I am preparing myself for the latest computer model. I think I shall have to start studying how to use a modern computer. But my teachers are all retired. Thailand has no other teachers left to teach me but teacher Thaksin. The prime minister will have to come and do it. Then I may take to my lessons so easily as to have to keep asking questions until Prime Minister Thaksin realises that he is the teacher and obliged to listen to the student. This is the method acceptable in the modern world. The prime minister is obliged to be taught. Everyone has the right to teach Thaksin. And this is not about the "integrated approach". I still don't know what that term means.
When the prime minister went to a meeting on terrorism in Bali, a deputy prime minister came to brief me about CEO-style provincial governors. I lost track after he kept repeating the terms "integrated approach" and "CEO". I simply didn't know what he was talking about.
So I thought he was a teacher as well. After I questioned him, he said I was the "super-CEO" and asked me to teach the CEOs. I told him I didn't think I fitted the bill and would not presume to teach CEOs because they were all-powerful.
Not long afterwards, I met a CEO governor in Hua Hin. I was about to return to Bangkok to attend the Apec events. The CEO told me that it was impossible for my motorcade to travel through the floods. The water was too deep and would float my cars. It so happened that the CEO had just arrived in office two weeks previously. He had the power to give orders but the problem was he had to first know what would solve the flooding.
His subordinates also thought of themselves as CEOs. Chaos ensued as orders were given by everyone. The CEO was a quick learner, fortunately, ...
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